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This summer, we saw the National Football League at a standstill and on the brink of not having a season. Once again, America is in the grips of a lockout and this time its the National Basketball Association.

With basketball season right around the corner you would think that more progress would have been made since that close of the season. The lockout began on July 1 and has been largely stagnant since then.

It has long been known, but only spoken of in hushed tones by university professors sitting in darkened rooms wearing Fat Elvis masks, that pre-Kindergarten “jump-start” (aka, “push-down”) programs don’t work other than to increase teacher employment and give parents the false idea that their kids are on the fast track to certain success. The problem is that the programs in question are sacred cows, thus to say publicly what I just said is to bring down the indignation of those who tear up involuntarily at the word “child.” I am, therefore, bracing myself.

There are days that you think you have the worst luck in the world, with one day after another slowly evaporating into thin air in a muddled blur as you trudge through your own miserable life, not knowing how or when you will crawl out or if and when anyone will take pity on you.

Another year, around spring with our state universities facing what could become devastating budget cuts. It’s seemingly become par for the course for universities here in Louisiana.

And as our state legislators try to find a way out of a financial quagmire, they have to consider the elephant in the room — does Louisiana have too many universities for a state its size?

Louisiana has 14 publicly funded four-year schools. Florida has 12, despite have a 75 percent higher population. Only four of our universities in Louisiana have at least 10,000 students. Four have fewer than 5,000.